The first shot in a game of billiards.
The transition area between a singer's vocal registers; the passaggio.
A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.
A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).
A sharp bit or snaffle.
The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table.
An area along a river that features steep banks, bluffs, or gorges (e.g., Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, US).
A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.
A temporary split with a romantic partner.
The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is, to move from its lower to its upper register.
A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.
A scheduled interval of days or weeks between periods of school instruction; a holiday.
A rest or pause, usually from work.
The counter-attack.
A short holiday.
An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
A sudden fall in prices on the stock exchange.
The beginning (of the morning).
A game won by the receiving player(s).
An act of escaping.
The curve imparted to the ball's motion on the green due to slope or grass texture.
A time for students to talk or play between lessons.
The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.
The start of a horse race.
A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
To go down, in terms of temperature, indicating that the most dangerous part of the illness has passed.
To become deeper at puberty.
To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.
To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily; to go on break.
To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change gait.
To demote; to reduce the military rank of.
To counter-attack.
To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination, or the like.
To become audible suddenly.
To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
To turn an animal into a beast of burden.
Of prices on the stock exchange: to fall suddenly.
To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.
To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
To ruin financially.
To disclose or make known an item of news, a band, etc.
To change a steady state abruptly.
To surpass or do better than (a specific number); to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
To end the run of (a play).
To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.
To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.
To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
To (attempt to) disengage and flee to; to make a run for.
To begin or end.
To suddenly become.
To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.
To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.
To demulsify.
To end (a connection); to disconnect.
To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
To arrive.
To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.
To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
To alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men, generally to go up, in women, sometimes to go down; to crack.
To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
To end.
To remove one of the two men on (a point).
To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.
To violate; to fail to adhere to.
To cause, or allow the occurrence of, a line break.
To B-boy; to breakdance.
The end of a billiard or pool table behind the foot point where the balls are racked.
The part of a flat surface on which the feet customarily rest.
The basic measure of rhythm in a poem.
Travel by walking.
The end of a rectangular table opposite the head.
In a bryophyte, that portion of a sporophyte which remains embedded within and attached to the parent gametophyte plant.
The part of a sewing machine which presses downward on the fabric, and may also serve to move it forward.
The bottom edge of a sail.
A unit of measure equal to twelve inches or one third of a yard, equal to exactly 30.48 centimetres.
The base of a piece of type, forming the sides of the groove.
A short foot-like projection on the bottom of an object to support it.
A biological structure found in many animals that is used for locomotion and that is frequently a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg.
A unit of measure for organ pipes equal to the wavelength of two octaves above middle C, approximately 328 mm.
The bottommost part of a typed or printed page.
Specifically, a human foot, which is found below the ankle and is used for standing and walking.
The base or bottom of anything.
The parsing of syllables into prosodic constituents, which are used to determine the placement of stress in languages along with the notions of constituent heads.
The globular lower domain of a protein.
The muscular part of a bivalve mollusc or a gastropod by which it moves or holds its position on a surface.
Fundamental principle; basis; plan.
The point of intersection of one line with another that is perpendicular to it.
Foot soldiers; infantry.
Recognized condition; rank; footing.
The end of a cigar which is lit, and usually cut before lighting.
To sum up, as the numbers in a column; sometimes with up.
To tread to measure of music; to dance; to trip; to skip.
To walk.
To renew the foot of (a stocking, etc.).
To use the foot to kick (usually a ball).
To pay (a bill).